Hey All
I have a slight problem with windows. When I turn the computer on, windows gets to, what I presume is the desktop, but, there are no icons, no task bar, no start button. No nothin!! I just have the wallpaper, the cursor, (which I can move around), but nothing else. Sometime I can get task manager up, but not always.
I am presuming it is getting stuck on something, but i hve no idea what. I havent installed, removed, added, anything in the last couple of weeks. Its also not oc'd.
I have removeable racks so I can run 3 - 4 different drives, (thats why I can post now). Also had no probs playing games, eg... FEAR, Doom 3, Farcry, Dungeon Siege 2, UT, BattleField 2, etc.

System as follows.........
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
GA 7VT600 L
1.5 Gb Kingston Value Ram
WD 160 Gb
Seagate 80 Gb
MSI 6600 GT 128Mb
SB Live 5.1
Logitech MX518 Gaming Mouse
Asus 1608P DVDR
Liteon 52x CDR/DVD Combo
Coolermaster Centurion Case
Coolermaster 350W PSU (came with case)
Windows XP SP1
NVidia 71.89 (no probs so havent changed)

If anyone has any ideas, Im all ears.

Thanks in advance.
oldwolf

Boot into safe mode, or keep trying till you can get it to succssfully start up, then go into administrator tools > event viewer and take a look at the errors. I think explorer.exe might be having problems starting properly.

If you can get the Task Manager to go up, look and see if you can find explorer.exe if not then File > New Task (New...) > type Explorer.exe... If that works then look at the event viewer mentioned by I Broke My MHZ

You could use the Recovery Console to reinstall explorer.exe -- I had to do that on my Father's laptop; it works fine, now.

maybe barts pe could help.

this could do with going in to the windows xp section

Thanks for the replies.
Replacing explorer didnt work.
Couldnt do a repair.
had to do a full install. Now Im in the middle of resetting all my bits and pieces,
EG.........Firewall, Antivirus, Video and Sound drivers, chipset drivers, etc, etc, etc.

bloody windows!!!!!!!!!!!

good old windows eh...btw why still on xp sp1?

Dont trust SP2, also have a couple of programs that dont like SP2, (picaview, and others)